Testosterone supplements for guys haven’t been demonstrated to hold off a host of age-related conditions and they are not worth the risks of serious unwanted effects like cardiac arrest, a brand new article on scientific tests says.

This article was published by PLOS One-a peer-reviewed, open-access online resource reporting research studies from a variety of disciplines-and can give you a boost for the accidental injuries cases of a huge number of men, plaintiffs’ attorneys say.

The article, which examined 156 studies, “confirms what our position has been all along: The drugs never underwent any randomized, clinical trials that demonstrated safety or efficacy,” Ronald Johnson Jr. of Schachter, Hendy & Johnson PSC in Ft. Wright, Ky., told Bloomberg BNA.

Based on the plaintiffs, the drugs are approved only to treat hypogonadism, the body’s lack of ability to produce testosterone. They allege its makers-which include AbbVie Inc., Eli Lilly & Co. and Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.-invented a disorder called “Low-T” and aggressively promoted these products to counter fatigue as well as other normal processes of aging.

“The prescription of natural testosterone supplements for low-T for cardiovascular health, s-exual function, physical function, mood, or cognitive function is without support from randomized clinical studies,” the content, authored by Professor Samantha Huo of your Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans and seven other academics, said.

But a defense attorney not working in the testosterone product litigation said, if she were representing the drugs’ makers, she “wouldn’t be terribly concerned” regarding the article.

Even though it makes broad claims, an evaluation article is merely as good as the actual studies, Mary Wells of Wells, Anderson & Race in Denver, said.

The defendants will examine if the studies are sound and reliable, Wells said. Her practice is focused on complex litigation including product liability and business matters.

“No one has done that before. The businesses ended up being cherry picking the few (very small and never validated) trials that showed benefits, but no one had taken each of the studies and determined what the overall outcome was,” he said.

According to the article, “We identified no population of normal men for whom the key benefits of testosterone use outweigh its risk.”

“Given the known perils of testosterone therapy and lacking evidence for clinical benefits in normal men, we do not think further trials of testosterone are needed,” the authors said.

This content is “powerful evidence of lacking any proof this drug is protected or effective males who do not have real hypogonadism,” Johnson said.

The authors make reference to men who don’t have real hypogonadism as “normal men,” Johnson said. “Apropos because lower testosterone levels while you age or put on weight is common.”

The drugs are already “aggressively marketed to a small grouping of men with no knowledge of what risks exist and with no proof of any benefit,” he said.

But Wells, the defense attorney, said, “Any time you’re considering the effectivity of a product for a particular purpose, you possess to take a look in the rigor of your studies,” she said.

Also essential is who the authors are, as well as their affiliations, Wells said. For instance, the article’s “competing interests” section notes that you of their co-authors is Adriane Fugh-Berman.

Wells pointed out that Fugh-Berman, a professor at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, is also a specialist witness with the request of plaintiffs in litigation regarding pharmaceutical marketing practices.

Meanwhile, Judge Matthew F. Kennelly of the United states District Court to the Northern District of Illinois, who presides on the litigation, has begun setting out procedures for test trials.

The court also recently denied a dismissal motion by Besins Healthcare, S.A., a Belgian corporation that manufactures AndroGel, one of many branded drugs, in France.

The plaintiffs produced sufficient evidence of United states AndroGel sales to offer the court authority to learn suits against Besins, the opinion said.

Their evidence shows AndroGel has become sold in america in excess of 16 years, with $4 billion in net sales between 2011 and mid-2015. Additionally, Besins has gotten more than $600 million in AndroGel royalty payments from Usa sales, the legal court said.

From the figures, a legal court said, and from plaintiffs’ evidence that Besins employees received regular updates on Usa AndroGel sales, it’s reasonable to infer Besins knew a spartagenx1 and significant flow from the AndroGel it manufactured would land in each one of the forum states.

Eight bellwether trials are slated to start out in June 2017 for AndroGel, probably the most traditionally used from the testosterone products.

Four will probably be cardiac arrest or stroke cases; the other four will involve plaintiffs who developed blood clot-related injuries.

Kennelly has also outlined procedures for test trials involving Eli Lilly’s Axiron, beginning in January 2018; and Endo Pharmaceuticals’ Testim and Fortesta products, in November 2017 and September 2018.